THE LATE BISHOP OF OXFORD.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—Grateful and appreciative things have been written of the late Bishop of Oxford in your columns and elsewhere, but perhaps sufficient stress has even now scarcely been laid on the fact that in him was realized in these latter days the very ideal of a scholar-saint. Perhaps no one knew so well as himself—and he but imperfectly—how great was the number of his disciples, including some who did not share his creed and many who did not know him even by sight. " Of gifts," he wrote long ago, "some are best for long distances, some for objects close at hand or in direct contact; but personal holiness, determining, refining, characterizing everything that a man says and does, will tell alike on those he may not know even by name and on those who see him in the constant intimacy of his home." In no juster words could one describe the uplifting influence of the personality of Francis Paget.— I am, Sir, &c., MARGARET TODD, M.D.
• Windydene, Mark Cross, Sussex.
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